Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
Tennessee Waltz, a lilting oldtimer, which has whirled its way right to the top of the hit parade, chiefly through the smooth efforts of Patti Page (Mercury), who is also high on the list with All My Love...
Young "Gundy" was no recluse, but was anything but a social success. He never drank or smoked, and turned down dance invitations from Smith girls. About the closest he came to his fellow students was playing his piano while they learned to waltz for the Junior Prom. Gundelfinger, of course, never attended the prom...
...Middle of a Riddle. Lazy and lilting, this is one of the best of the new ones in waltz time, by Franz Winkler, composer of last year's popular Forever and Ever. Percy Faith (Columbia) and Lawrence Welk (Mercury) both do it well...
Could those bars of music so obscurely placed on TIME'S cover be from the Missouri Waltz...